The Sublime Beauty of Ladies In Red

2. Art in Detail
The Sublime Beauty of Ladies In Red

3. BRONZINO, Agnolo
Eleonora di Toledo
1543
Oil on wood, 59 x 46 cm
Národní Galerie, Prague

4. ... an luxurious dress she wore Eleonora di Toledo when she first arrived in Florence after her wedding

7. GIORGIONE
Portrait of a Young
Woman (Laura)
1506
Oil on canvas mounted
on panel, 41 x 34 cm
Kunsthistorisches
Museum, Vienna

8. Perhaps a Venetian courtesan: a luxurious red cloak, a thin veil enticingly gently winding around the exposed breast ...

11. MUNCH, Edvard
The Dance of Life
1899-1900
Oil on canvas, 125 x
191 cm
National Gallery, Oslo

12. They dance face to face, silent and unsmiling...the red colour continues like a contour line around the man and runs into his clothes

15. DIX, Otto
Portrait of the Dancer
Anita Berber
1925
Oil and tempera on
plywood, 120 cm x 65
cm
Kunstmuseum
Stuttgart, Stuttgart

16. She could be seen in hotel lobbies naked apart from an sable wrap, a pet monkey and a silver brooch packed with cocaine ...
the garish red of the dress bleeds with the intensity of the period, which throbbed with the aftershocks of the Great War that
scarred both Germany

19. Dante Gabriel Rossetti,
The Loving Cup,
1867
National Museum of
Western Art, Tokyo

20. A beautiful young woman with richly braided long brown hair, and wrapped in a deep red robe, raises a golden cup to her lips...
a toast to the woman's knight, who is leaving for war or has left for war

23. BRONZINO, Agnolo
Portrait of Lucrezia
Panciatichi
c. 1540
Tempera on wood, 102
x 85 cm
Galleria degli Uffizi,
Florence

24. A sumptuous dress in warm red satin and dark velvet enhancing aristocratic dignity and elegance:
lady of a refined and cultured Florentine society ...

27. VERMEER, Johannes
The Girl with the Wine
Glass
c. 1659
Oil on canvas, 78 x 68
cm
Herzog Anton Ulrich-
Museum, Braunschweig

28. A young woman wearing an elegant red dress she seems to be courted by a fine gentleman ...

31. MURILLO, Bartolomé
Esteban
Virgin and Child with a
Rosary
1650-55
Oil on canvas, 164 x
110 cm
Museo del Prado,
Madrid

32. Image of holy loveliness: delicate lips and nose, and dark, limpid eyes ...
the Virgin’s saturated red dress is a striking complement to the brilliant blue mantle draped over her lap

35. EYCK, Jan van
Suckling Madonna
Enthroned
c. 1436
Oil on wood, 65,5 x 49,5
cm
Städelsches
Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt

36. The huge robe of the Virgin is in red... a symbolic colour of life, energy and of Christ’s martyrdom and redemption

39. Art in Detail: The Sublime Beauty of Ladies In
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40. Red in art history symbolizes many things. First of all, it was a color of power, status and wealth. Kings,
princes and, beginning in 1295, Roman Catholic cardinals began to wear red colored habitus. In medieval
painting red was used to attract attention to the most important figures; both Christ and the Virgin Mary
were commonly painted wearing red mantles. It was also connected to red as a symbol of martyrs and
sacrifice, particularly because of its association with blood.
Another association of red is love and seduction, sexuality, eroticism and immorality. It was long seen as
having a dark side, particularly in Christian theology. It was associated with sexual passion, anger, sin, and
the devil. In the Old Testament of the Bible, the Book of Isaiah said: “Though your sins be as scarlet, they
shall be white as snow.” In the New Testament, in the Book of Revelation, the Antichrist appears as a red
monster, ridden by a woman dressed in scarlet (lol), known as the Whore of Babylon. Maybe this is why
red was also associated with prostitution.